The Top 10 Most Unique and Odd Caterpillars
My choices for the top 10 most unique caterpillars in appearance.
I will be posting in a few weeks a series of pictures and information about the Monarch butterfly. Every year the kids each find one Monarch caterpillar and we watch them grow from a tiny baby to a large caterpillar. They then get to see them make a pupa, emerge and finally we set them free. I was sitting here thinking one day of how I’ve really only seen about four kinds of caterpillars and I was curious to see just how many more there were. I sorted through hundreds of pictures and came up with the top 10 most unique looking ones I could find. Hope you enjoy!
Pipevine Swallowtail
Found in New England to Florida. From southern Ontario to Nebraska, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and New Mexico
White Marked Tussock
Found in North America as far west as Texas, Colorado and Alberta.
White Furcula
Found in Europe.
Giant Swallowtail
Found in N. America, particularly south and east.
Tersa Sphinx
Found in the US through Central America and into some of South America.
Spicebush Silk Moth
Found in eastern US to the Great Plains and Maine through southern Quebec and Wisconsin to Minnesota, south to the Florida panhandle, Gulf Coast and east Texas.
Saddle Back
Found in eastern North America.
Hag or Monkey
Found in Northern and Southern US.
Monarch
Found in North America, New Zealand and Australia (called Wanderer in Australia)
Faithful Beauty
(all photos found on Wikipedia)
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15 Responses to “The Top 10 Most Unique and Odd Caterpillars”
On June 21, 2009 at 4:19 am
Great post, as usual. The diversity of your interests amazes me.
On June 21, 2009 at 6:23 am
My dad is an entymologist and has collected moths for years, he’s also kept caterpillars too! I thoroughly enjoyed this article Sheila, great pictures too, there are so many different caterpillars, some of them quite pretty.
On June 21, 2009 at 6:39 am
Wow caterpillars are certainly intriguing creatures. Very unusual to look at. Great photos!
On June 21, 2009 at 6:47 am
These are really odd! I never see these caterpillars before. Great post and liked it!
On June 21, 2009 at 7:14 am
The Saddle Back is my favourite from this list! Great article, and it just shows the diversity of nature!
On June 21, 2009 at 10:43 am
you have come out with an outstanding article. I like it a lot!
On June 21, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I think you chose the best top 10 alright. TX
On June 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa……….. thanks for sharing!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
On June 21, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Great article! I loved it!
On June 21, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Caterpillars freak me out. Some of them look like snails. Great job!
On June 21, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I usually don’t mind little crawly things but I don’t like these little creatures too close to me.
On June 24, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Now how cool is that. Another job well done.
On July 7, 2009 at 4:48 am
Nice article. It is very informative, and the picture is a plus to your piece.
On August 12, 2009 at 11:27 pm
It would be appropriate to put photo credits on the images, unless you took all of the photos yourself.
On October 31, 2009 at 10:53 am
Good Collection indeed….
Keep it up
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